From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18] GSSAPI encryption support
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 13:26:55 -0500
Message-ID: <20180806182654.GU5695@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180806143633.GJ27724@tamriel.snowman.net>
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 10:36:34AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Heikki Linnakangas (hlinnaka@iki.fi) wrote:
> > Sorry if this sounds facetious, but:
> >
> > What is the point of this patch? What's the advantage of GSSAPI encryption
> > over SSL? I was hoping to find the answer by reading the documentation
> > changes, but all I can see is "how" to set it up, and nothing about "why".
>
> If you've already got an existing Kerberos environment, then it's a lot
> nicer to leverage that rather than having to also implement a full PKI
> to support and use SSL-based encryption.
>
> There's also something to be said for having alternatives to OpenSSL.
Those two reasons would be my motivation if I were implementing this,
and they are some of the reasons I did a code review.
Nico
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